👋 Hey — Egemen here.
Getting crazy out there.
The median seed round in 2025 closed at $4M raised on a $20M post-money valuation.
That's not a seed by 2018 standards. That's a Series A.
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🧠 Deep-Dive: Seed is the new Series A
The seed game has split into two markets that share a name and almost nothing else.
At the top, the 95th percentile seed round in 2025 raised $16.6M at an $80.5M post-money. That's nearly 3x the 95th percentile valuation in 2019.
At Y Combinator's March 2026 Demo Day, eight-week-old companies were pricing rounds at $5M on $40M post.
One investor told TechCrunch he was writing $3-4M checks at $25-30M post for seed rounds where founders already had $2M+ in revenue and signed enterprise pilots.
At the bottom, capital is concentrating. Across all US startups that closed a round in 2025, the bottom 50% took home just 14% of total cash, per Carta.
At the seed stage specifically, AI captured 42% of capital, up from 23% pre-ChatGPT. If you're not in the top half by ARR, AI moat, or pedigree, you're not raising a seed.
You're raising a pre-seed with a Series A label slapped on it. It’s total madness!
Seed today is basically what Series A was seven years ago.
She's right. The numbers say so.
If you're going out for a $2M check at a $10M post in 2026, the math has moved.
VCs aren't writing three $3M checks anymore.
They're writing one $9M check to the founder with the better story.
The check size you used to call a seed is what investors now call passing on it.
Be honest about where you stand. If you're not in the top half by metrics, raise less, dilute less, and stop calling it a seed.
👉 Seed is the new Series A. Pre-seed is the new seed. Stop pricing yourself off the 2018 ladder.
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